Daily Update: Mike Modest, NJPW Cup fallout, Alicia Atout

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Highlights include:

  • Match of the week and performer of the week
  • WrestleMania updates, including status of different matches that have been planned and not announced
  • Ticket sales notes and demand for tickets, plus notes on NXT Stand & Deliver
  • A study of the buying patterns of PPVs for AEW, including comparisons with one year ago, how many shows the average AEW PPV buyer purchases each year, the difference between satellite owners and others in the viewing patterns, update on Revolution numbers and how many different people bought an AEW PPV this past year
  • Letters from WWE to the Alamodome in San Antonio show how WWE counted Royal Rumble attendance, along with the actual numbers from the show
  • Richard Schaefer, the famed boxing promoter, heading Anthem’s wrestling, MMA and new boxing divisions and what are future plans for the divisions
  • New Japan Cup coverage with all the matches from the past week
  • Notes on AEW’s Canada tour
  • Mexican star taken to prison on domestic violence charges against another Mexican wrestling star
  • Full coverage of this past week’s major pro wrestling events and the UFC show
  • Update on the WWE Hall of Fame including stories on the careers of the inductees
  • Coverage of the WWE’s return to its most famous arena, Madison Square Garden
  • The life of former wrestler Jeff Gaylord and his very checkered life after wrestling and during wrestling
  • The most detailed look at the weekly television ratings, competition, how segments did, where shows are strong and weak.
  • Promotion adding a ton of new talent after young wrestlers impress in a special format
  • Mainstream angle being done in Mexico
  • Joint show announced in Japan for the Himeka retirement
  • A look at the Guerrero wrestling family
  • Legendary athlete passes away that a wrestling move done all over the world was named after including the person who actually named the move
  • New promotion starting taking the name of a legendary regional company
  • International Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame 2023 inductions and ceremony
  • Ric Flair Twitter war of words
  • Lots of indie notes including some big crowds this week
  • 16 Carat Gold tournament in Germany news
  • Notes on recent Will Ospreay matches
  • Notes on major AEW negotiations
  • AEW cancels TV tapings and why
  • Update on social media abuse of Riho
  • Chris Jericho honored
  • Ticket sales for upcoming WWE & AEW shows
  • Streaming numbers for WWE & AEW this past week
  • International TV ratings updates including a company sets its all-time viewing record in Canada
  • Notes on AEW signees
  • UFC TV renewal talk even though it’s years away
  • Former UFC champion Benson Henderson retires
  • Update on WWE’s attempt to get legalized betting on its matches
  • Update on Jay White
  • Interest level mainstream of UFC, WWE and AEW big shows including geographical popularity split between AEW Revolution and WWE Elimination Chamber
  • Update on MLW lawsuit against WWE
  • What are the key new things in the suit
  • WWE injury updates and returns

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Tuesday Update

WWE

  • Nathan Frazer and Charlie Dempsey from NXT worked last night’s Main Event tapings, facing Bronson Reed and Shelton Benjamin respectively.
  • Austin Theory and Carmelo Hayes are guests on tomorrow’s edition of The Bump.
  • Bianca Belair and Logan Paul are upcoming guests on Kevin Hart’s Cold as Balls talk show.
  • Kayla Braxton was a guest on the Horror at The Store podcast.
  • Matches added today’s to WWE’s YouTube include The Miz vs. Wade Barrett from WrestleMania 29, Seth Rollins vs. AJ Styles from the March 21, 2022 episode of Raw, and Tommaso Ciampa vs. Tony D’Angelo from NXT Stand & Deliver 2022.

AEW

  • The code for tomorrow’s Forbidden Door presale is CHLS3X.

Other Wrestling

  • Mike Modest has been announced as an inductee into this year’s Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame class.
  • During this morning’s New Japan Cup, a mysterious vignette aired, concluding with the words “coming soon”.
  • This morning’s show also saw Robbie Eagles challenge Hiromu Takahashi next for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title. He announced that he has left CHAOS and has now joined TMDK.
  • Will Ospreay has pulled out of a match at Revolution Pro Wrestling on March 26 against Dan Moloney.
  • A live edition of Impact Wrestling will air on March 30 leading to Multiverse United later that night.
  • Alicia Atout announced on Facebook that she has been granted her release from MLW and is now a free agent.
  • MLW is promising an announcement on tonight’s program on Reelz.
  • KONGO’s Manabu Soya and Kenoh won the AJPW World Tag Team titles on today’s AJPW show, defeating Yuma Aoyagi and Naoya Nomura.
  • Dragongate announced that Eita has re-signed with the company. “He has expressed a desire to expand his activities. After negotiation, it was decided to update his contract to one that will give him the flexibility to do so while continuing to compete in #dragongate,” they wrote on Twitter.
  • Satoshi Kojima will be a part of this year’s AJPW Champion Carnival tournament.
  • Nick Wayne will be making his DDT debut in May.